This release contains the same 24 tracks from the Complete Score released by Intrada in 2009. The version from Geffen Records is a digital version.

BACK TO THE FUTURE

2016

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2016
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49:28
Mondo

Vinyl edition

Special release of the complete score in vinyl format. Contains the same 24 tracks from the Complete Score released by Intrada in 2009.

BACK TO THE FUTURE Trilogy

2016

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2016
24
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Mondo

Vinyl edition

Special trilogy box released in vinyl format with the complete score albums from the Back to the Future trilogy.

REVIEW

Back to the Future (ENGLISH)

Back to the Future (Alan Silvestri). Sometimes it seems difficult to understand that a soundtrack with a theme so popular as the Back to the Future one had never had an official album, not at least in the years following the premiere of the movie in 1985, apart from the disc of songs that was released together with the movie and in which there were included only 2 tracks of Silvestri's score, and when the sequels released a few years later had its album with the music of the composer. 24 years had pass in order that Intrada was editing the complete score.

The 2009 edition contains 2 CDs: the first one of them includes the complete score and, the second one, an alternative version of many of the tracks recorded before the multiple modifications that Silvestri had to do to satisfy the director Robert Zemeckis. The content of this second disc is certainly redundant, since it happens in other compilations in which there were included the score edited originally together with the complete or expanded score, which creates a compilation with repeated similar tracks. This one is a bonus content appraisable, but not important, since the really important thing is always the final version of the music listened in the film, and it is obtained with the content that offers the disc 1.

Since it is use to happen, these record efforts are released in a limited quantity to a few thousands of copies that end becoming sold out, and it would be something great to release a digital version after the ending of the physical issue, to offer this music to the future generations. This is something that does not take place with these editions, and is understandable from the perspective of the record label that commercializes the product, but it is also understandable that the digital release would be the following logical step, after the edition for the first time of this and other scores not released in the time of the movie premiere, for its definitive global diffusion. The clearest example of this senseless is the one of this soundtrack: it is simpler to find a copy of the original 1985 album than a copy of the 2009 limited edition. Does not it look like madness? An anachronistic problem? Something that should have been solved by the record and technological possibilities of the 21st century?

Apart from both discs, the 2009 album contains a booklet with interesting notes about the production of the movie and the score, in which surprises the constant insistence of Steven Spielberg, producer of the film, in his doubts about that Silvestri were the appropriate composer for the movie. After the first hearing of the music recorded by the composer, Spielberg's doubts were cleared up, moment from which the producer did not doubt again about the composing capacities of Alan Silvestri.

OCTOBER, 21st 2015

BACK TO THE FUTURE Trilogy
Vinyl Box Set (Mondo 2016)

At the end of 2015, the publishing fever comes untied for the music of Back to the Future. In particular, around October 21st, 2015, the date to what Marty McFly travels in the second movie of the saga from the "present" of then to the future already reached of 2015. Intrada re-edits partially its version of 2009, this time including the complete score (content of the disc 1 of the 2009 edition) and doing without the extras (disc 2). At the same time, Mondo edits the soundtracks of the three movies in vinyl, and release them in two formats: in a complete box set including the three soundtracks of the three films of the saga, and as individual releases of each soundtrack. All of them with the artistic success for their covers with which they use to impress. Also, the two vinyl editions of Mondo for Back to the Future (from the box set and the individual release) have different covers.

But the most important step is that Geffen Records also edits the score in digital format, which will end with the continuous problem of the limited CD issues sold out. The musical content is the same in the versions for the three formats (CD, vinyl and digital), though the official calculation of the track times differs a bit among them.

Note: although Mondo uses the October 21st 2015 date to pre-order the vinyls, the soundtracks will not ship until February 2016.

It is a symptom of how the times and the consumption of film music have changed, that the score of Back to the Future, which in the moment of the premiere of the movie did not even have an official album, passes to be commercialized with several editions simultaneously, included those of both sequels, undoubtedly dragged by the "October 21st, 2015" effect. Though, in this occasion, it is possible that the purchase of this CDs and vinyls could be seen influenced as a purchase of collection objects, besides as a purchase of music. There are many examples of musical artists and from other disciplines who were estimated after the pass of time, often after their death. And it seems that this circumstance continues repeating itself even being at the end of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st, the interval between the premiere of the movie and the year 2015 that so much meaning acquires in the second part of the saga and that, undoubtedly, has used as commercial hook for this torrent of editions.